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Hey all, just wanted to give you a heads up that I've changed my username from bluepenguin to EJTranslations to match the name I've been using elsewhere--plus, it's a bit embarrassing to be tied to a name that I thought was cute when I was 16 all these years later. This would probably be a pretty...

In my time as an admin for AnimeLyrics, I've noticed that there are some rules, or at least preferences, that I've explained to people individually a number of times but that aren't written down in any kind of clear, easily-located fashion. There are also small mistakes I see people making with...

Greetings. I've been meaning to translate songs for a while now and just got around to translating the theme song for the game "The Alchemist Code" / "誰ガ為のアルケミスト". I did the Japanese tests a few days ago but haven't heard back yet. Is there something else I need to do?
I of course picked a...

I want to post this but before I want to check them. Thank you in advance.
未熟 無ジョウ されど 美しくあれ
Inexperienced, heartless (uncertain), but even so, be beautiful.
No Destiny ふさわしく無い
こんなんじゃきっと物足りない
くらい語っとけばうまくいく
物、金、愛、言、もう自己顕示飽きた
No Destiny would tie you and me.

I'm translating very very blue sky by Kid, an entry for Magical Mirai 2020, and I'm stuck on one line.
The second chorus goes like this:
WoWWoW 雑踏に迷い込み
WoWWoW zattō ni mayoikomi
WoWWoW Getting lost in the crowds
WoWWoW 時々、空見上げた

I'm working on a translation for Miracle Orange but I'm stumped with the verse
あのときがいいな初めてみーんらい / 明日を揺らすの / ｷﾐへの想い強くなるだけ
SouthSoilHome made a cover so I asked him what みーんらい means. He thought maybe it's meant to be taken as "midnight" but he wasn't sure.
I'm also having trouble...

In seeing multiple translations of the Bump of Chicken song Hello, world!, including the commercial one by Funimation, the phrase ご自分だけがヒーロー is translated as "I am the only hero" (Funimation) or "myself is the only hero" (here on AL), and I've yet to see a translation which doesn't reference...

https://www.animelyrics.com/anime/psychopass/ppaawy.htm
I was reading Ayu Ohseki's translation of AAWY to check whether I had understood it properly and I ran into a difference where I couldn't tell if was an interpretation thing or if I was just wrong. I was hoping for someone else's opinion:...

Hey everyone, it's been a while! お久しぶりです!
Real life kept me busy for the past couple of years, y'know how it is. :sweatdrop
I've been working on this song on and off whenever I had time for a while now. Obviously I had to go for a Sound Horizon song right off the bat... err, not gonna lie,...

Years ago, I was wanting to translate this song based on The Thousand Nights and the One Night. However, the lyrics featured that neat trick that a lot of doujin songs do wherein they change the words but don't reflect it in the lyrics sheet. =_= orz
Many of the words were Arabic, and Akkun was...

Hello, I asked a friend to translate this song and would love it if anyone can help give it a check and probably upload it to the animelyrics database as I have no access to upload them. I love both the song and the circle so much and would love it if the lyrics can be shared.
Song can be heard...

Hi all
Trying to transliterate this beauty.
I'm no good with japanese, between JLPT5 and JLPT4 now.
Found original kanji here http://lyricsdb.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post.html
I did recognized katakana words as french, since i know it a bit.
But i'm doubting some other words.
1. furigana...

Someone asked me to translate doriko's Onomapet. You can find the lyrics and my draft translation on my site (you need to click on the "English" button to see the translation).
I don't know if the song is meant to make much sense, but I think I can translate most of it, just near the end...

So I'm translating Placebo by Hachiya Nanashi (https://www5.atwiki.jp/hmiku/pages/38957.html) and I'm hung up on the following bit:
汚れた目がなんたてったって
とうにどうも救われてる
あり得ない奇跡が起こってる
栄光と希望のビジネスモデル
引っ張っていってよ未来に
Specifically on the "なんたてったって" part--I can't quite parse it, and it doesn't seem to be...

I'm having trouble interpreting a couple of lines in 君が歌う僕の歌.
Lyrics and play links on my website. Click on "English" to see my provisional translation.
The song commemorates Meiko's 12 anniv. of release. My understanding is that the singer is the songwriter and 君 refers to Meiko. It seems that...

I have several half finished songs for this lyric challenge right now, and I was hoping that someone could assist me with one of them.
For some unknown reason, a song from my distant past entered my mind two weeks ago, and as more lyrics came to me, I realised to my horror that is was Mahoro de...

Can anyone help me with this song?
Lyrics: http://lenslyrics.ml/roadrollerstampede.html
Click on "English" to see draft translation.
Click the play tab to listen, but it might not add much to just reading the lyrics.
The bits I'm struggling to understand are:

I understand 初恋予報 except for one phrase which is so frustrating ...
I bet it's going to embed a video player when I hit submit but anyway
here's the link to the video.
Lyrics are here. The bit I don't get is 蹴っ飛ばした空 in verse 5:
「バカにするなよ」 売り言葉ニガイ言葉
コウカイ先に立たない
蹴っ飛ばした空 泣き出しそうでマルデ
ココロ曇天模様

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCxhGaKSV8
This is a pretty old and obscure song, so I was unable to find reliable transcriptions online. I did find some of unknown quality on English and Chinese sites, and they mostly align with what I got by ear, but there's one word I'm not sure about.
...

Hi, guys. I've been working on this song for quite a while now, meaning that I tried to translate it years ago but was dissatisfied and abandoned it.
I discussed some parts with bluepenguin last year (who was an amazing aid, thank you), though I think some understanding of the entire song is...

Hello,
I'm not sure this happens to anyone else, but I often run into songs which I just can't translate one or two lines in and it completely bins the whole translation. I have decided to compile these sections together in hopes that someone can help me out on a couple. Things get a bit lengthy...

I'd like some help understand this song released by BIGHEAD to commemorate the 10th Kagamine anniversary:
https://youtu.be/bqecQge4Hao
The words themselves seem relatively straightforward but so much depend on how you interpret them so I'd like to give an interpretation of the lyrics as I go....

I translated this song a long time ago, way before joining this forum. In fact, this is actually the very first song I attempted to translate once I learned the Jouyou Kanji. So, while adding some songs to my songbox I was surprised to see there wasn't a translation for it here!
Given that,...

The official English name of the Group is Franchouchou, however their actual name in Japanese is Franshushu.
I hope I got the names right ^_^"
I tried looking the names up on Google and putting them into Jisho. I think these are right but I am not certain.
I think the と here is quote...

Okay this is an attempt to translate "Nameless Story," the OP to the new Anime Tensei Shitara Suraimu Datta Ken (That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime).
I am horrible at transliterating Japanese names so these I plugged into Jisho.org and Google to get an idea on the proper...

Since there isn't a translation up, I thought I'd do one. But I can't post it since...I can't read Japanese...though the song is in Italian...so it shouldn't matter but...
Even though it's sort of dated, it's always bugged me that there wasn't a good translation for it so I did it myself. Some...

Okay another translation in progress. This is from the ending of Fairy tail season nine this time.
EDIT: I went ahead and rearranged this translation based on feedback from other songs. I also checked the Kanji with https://www.uta-net.com/song/256506/
EDIT 2: Put in corrections in teal...